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§1 Plant

Carex glaucodea Tuck. ex Olney

vernacular blue sedge — species · Cyperaceae


USDA
CAGL6
GBIF
2725034
Rank
species
blue sedge (Carex glaucodea)
Platephotograph · Shaun PogacnikCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Graminoid
Duration
Perennial
Group
Monocot
Family
Cyperaceae Juss.
Genus
Carex
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 313 counties across 20 states/territories
Legend Native · 313 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 313 counties across 20 states/territories.

Arkansas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 2 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 28 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 19 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 51 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 46 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 18 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 38 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 23 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 11 N ▾

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/CAGL6 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/2725034 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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